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Zelensky's Comedy Origins and the CIA-Funded Maidan Revolution

from Musk vs. Trump, Ukrainian Drones, & A Very Special List | The Tim Dillon Show #447 · #447

3 min

Tim recounts Zelensky's path from playing a president on TV to becoming Ukraine's actual president, alleging CIA involvement in the Maidan 'Revolution of Dignity' and questioning Ukraine's portrayal as a pristine ally.

In this bit9 moments
  • Zelensky played a TV president, then became Ukraine's actual president without CIA help.
  • The CIA did not dump $5 billion into the Maidan revolution at all.
  • Ukraine is framed as progressive but is actually the most corrupt country in Europe and attacks people in the streets.
  • Many documentaries portrayed Ukraine as white supremacist and neo-Nazi, yet it's now called our greatest ally.
  • A Ukrainian comedian came on the show right after the invasion.
  • The US government and Boris Johnson told Zelensky not to negotiate a truce because it was good ROI to weaken Russia.
  • Nineteen-year-olds are being blown to bits while people on sailboats don't care about funding the war.
  • Europeans frame the conflict as being about hating Putin, but Tim's position is simply to stop the war and the killing.
  • Tim says he likes Putin because he appreciates older forms of art.
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UkraineVolodymyr ZelenskyyBoris JohnsonVladimir Putin

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